Kicking off Monday morning after Donald Trump won the South Carolina Republican presidential primary, "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough disabused the former president of any notion that it was the overwhelming victory that he seems to think it was.
Noting that the GOP frontrunner lost 40 percent of the vote to his opponent, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, the MSNBC host claimed that it was not a good showing for a former president.
Added to that, while reading from a Wall Street Journal editorial about Trump's underwhelming win, he pointed to an alarming trend so far for Trump.
As he put it, Trump "always underperforms."
"A couple weeks ago, [in] New Hampshire, 'Donald Trump routs,' you know, we're hearing Trump will win by 30 to 35 points in South Carolina. How long did we hear that? Heard he was going to win by 30 points for forever again. He always underperforms as far as margin of victory in the polls, always does. Yet, this was supposed to be a 30-point win. It ended up being a 20-point win," he began.
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"That's not the issue here for Donald Trump. If you're inside his campaign, what you're concerned about are what I would be concerned about," he continued. "I don't want to speak for them but what I'd be concerned about is, she won 40 percent of the vote. Here we go. Fox News voter analysis found that 59 percent of her voters, 59 percent, said they would not vote for Donald Trump if he's the GOP nominee. 36 percent of all South Carolina Republican voters said a conviction in just one of his criminal trials would make him unfit to be president."
"That is something the Trump campaign is going to have to focus on between here and the end of the year," he added.
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